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th Today in 1907, U.S. Congress raised the salary of congressmen to $7500– it went into effect March 4thof that year. Both House and Senate members got the same amount. As for the Vice President and the cabinet members – they earned $12,000.(Side note: Before you start thinking that they weren't being paid very much, consider that the Veep's salary at that time was enough to buy at least half a dozen houses. At the time, the richest man in the world was John D. Rockefeller, whose oil fortune was incredible by any measure…he was worth about $300-million – which would be about $8-billio...

Latter. i was at the white house when the republicans took down clinton's nominee. i watched as they took down senator tower who was to become the republican secretary of defense. both parties do this unfortunately after an election. the losing party almost seeming to want some sort of sacrificial lam out there. i hope this, that what this nation most wants is to have trust once again in washington, d.c. it's a part of the program down in washington that doesn't seem to be there. while i have great respect for senator mccain who threatened to filly buster this. i couldn't have done what he did...